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Despite graduating, Cole would officially receive his degree during a homecoming concert in 2015, revealing that he had owed money for a library book, causing the university to hold back from granting him his degree. He graduated magna cum laude in 2007, with a 3.8 GPA. At the college, Cole was the president of Haraya, a pan-African student coalition. Initially majoring in computer science, Cole later switched to communication and business after witnessing the life of a lonely computer science professor. He moved there and accepted a scholarship to St. Upon graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA, Cole decided that his chances of securing a recording contract would be better in New York City. Cole later collaborated with local group Bomm Sheltuh, rapping and producing as a member of the group. During this period, Cole heightened emphasis on improving his production skills, later beginning initial production under the pseudonym Therapist. Ĭole began rapping at the age of twelve, and saw it as an ideal profession in 2000, when his mother purchased an ASR-X musical sampler as a Christmasgift. During his youth, Cole expressed an affinity for basketball and music, and served as a first-chair violinist for the Terry Sanford Orchestra until 2003. I identify more with what I look like, because that's how I got treated not necessarily in a negative way". I can identify but never have I felt like I'm one of them. But at the end of the day, never felt white. Cole grew up in a multi-ethnic environment, and when asked about how closely his ethnicity impacts him, Cole commented, "I can identify with white people, because I know my mother, her side of the family, who I love.
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Cole's father later abandoned the family during his youth, prompting his mother to relocate Cole and his brother, Zach Cole, to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Army, and his mother, Kay, is a white European American who worked as a postal worker for the United States Postal Service. His father is an African-Americanveteran, who served in the U.S. Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born on January 28, 1985, at an American military base in Frankfurt, West Germany.
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The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum in April 2017. In December 2016, Cole released his fourth studio album 4 Your Eyez Only. The latter earned him his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. His next two releases, 2013's Born Sinner and 2014's 2014 Forest Hills Drive, received mostly positive reviews from critics, and both were certified platinum in the United States. Billboard 200, and was soon certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Intent on further pursuing a solo career as a rapper, he went on to release two additional mixtapes, The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights after signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint in 2009.Ĭole released his debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in 2011. Born on a military base in Germany but raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007. Cole is widely regarded as one of the best rappers of his generation. Cole, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985), known professionally as J.